[ncountylee]

Some national labor unions are so concerned they have tried to include language in bargaining contracts limiting the use of GPS.

Hard to fight this evidence. Hope GPS is widely adopted, taxpayers need all possible help fighting public union abuses.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Sucks when government employees have to work like the rest of us, doesn't it?

[inkling]

Why am I not surprised that they are finding sin in a town called Babylon?

[JimRed]

"If you do something wrong, they're going to get you,"...

Perceptive fellow we have here! So, just don't do anything wrong. It can't be THAT hard to put in an honest day's work.

[demlosers]

"If you do something wrong, they're going to get you," one town snowplow driver said, glaring at the GPS device on his dashboard.

Not if you spoof it, jam it, or temporarily relocate it...

[Fido969]

However, the system also is being used to monitor worker behavior -- a realization that has left town employees increasingly nervous.

God forbid your boss should be watching you when you are at work.

[sheik yerbouty]

"Alas, Babylon"..

[quietolong]

Real ID comeing next to you!

[ikka]

What is green and white and sleeps three?

A PennDOT truck.

[mmercier]

I have a pal who plows for the state, they put a GPS in his vehicle.

Now he has to park under an overpass to sleep.

[arthurus]

Workers on the job have a very limited sphere of privacy while at work. The employer buys the worker's time for 8 hours each day. If the worker is spending that time in the dounut shop it is veery much the employer's business.

[Still Thinking]

When the Town of Babylon installed global positioning system technology in most of its fleet of 250 vehicles in January, officials touted it as a way to improve efficiency...However, the system also is being used to monitor worker behavior -- a realization that has left town employees increasingly nervous.

I hate it when people say "efficiency" and mean "effectiveness". Efficiency is exactly what the city is monitoring, not that I'm necessarily in favor of it, it's just that this typically illiterate J-school grad is bitching about a bait-and-switch on the part of the city when he's just too dumb to understand what they said they were going to do. As far as the merits of the case, if the workers were real people I'd feel sorry for them, but as they're civil serpents and work for Big Brother, I vote for all the supervision money can buy.